In Defense of Housing – David Madden and Peter Marcuse
The Just City Reader – ed. Toni L. Griffin
What Goes Up: the Right and Wrongs to the City – Michael Sorkin
High-Risers: Cabrini Green and the Fate of American Public Housing – Ben Austen
The Divided City: Poverty and Prosperity in Urban Amercia – Alan Mallach
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City – Matthew Desmond
How to Kill aCity: Gentrification, Inequality and the Fight for the Neighborhood – P.E. Moskowitz
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America – Richard Rothstein
A House Is Not Just a House: Projects on Housing – Tatiana Bilbao
Unhoused: Adorno and the Problem of Dwelling – Matt Waggoner
Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City – Richard Sennett
Evicted – Matthew Desmond
The Library Book – Susan Orlean
The Night Watchman – Louise Erdrich
Sharks in the Time of Saviors – Kawai Strong Washburn
The Glass Hotel – Emily St. John Mandel
The Freedom Artist – Ben Okri
Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line – Deepa Anappara
Braiding Sweetgrass – Robin Wall Kimmerer, a UW-Madison alumna and on the Earth Partnership board. A must-read for anyone involved in Land Arch and Planning.
Works Confronting Racism in Society & Schools
White Kids: Growing Up with Privilege in a Racially-Divided America by Margaret Hagerman
How to Be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi
No Bs (Bad Stats): Black People Need People Who Believe in Black People Enough Not to Believe Every Bad Thing They Hear about Black People by Ivory A Toldson
Grading for Equity: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How It Can Transform Schools and Classrooms by Joe Feldma
Disrupting Poverty: Five Powerful Classroom Practices by Kathleen M. Budge
We Got This.: Equity, Access, and the Quest to Be Who Our Students Need Us to Be by Cornelius Mino
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla F. Saad
Multiplication is for White People: Raising Expectations for Other People’s Children by Lisa Delpit
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
The 1619 Project from the New York Times Magazine
Podcast Episode: A Decade Of Watching Black People Die
Housing &/or Community Development
Race for Profit – Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State –Samuel Stein
Brave New Home: Our Future In Smarter, Simpler, Happier Housing – Diana Lind
Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America – Conor Dougherty
A perk for all APA student members….https://planning.org/blog/blogpost/9125372/
https://dirt.asla.org/2016/07/26/summer-books-recommendations-from-landscape-architects/